Page 254 of Nobody's Girl

EDEN

Alyssa is curled around my back and I feel silk between our bodies. I turn over and pull the blanket back, revealing a very sexy little red nighty.

“Mmmm …,” I moan. “What do we have going on here, Mrs. Fontaine?”

Her sleepy eyes open and she grabs the blanket out of my hand, covering herself back up. “It’s cold, Eden, stop.”

“I’ll let you sleep. I’m going to take a shower,” I say. “I really think we should get out of this bed today. You know, go do something.”

I’m determined to get a real shower and shave this beard from my face this morning. Although part animal, I don’t care to live like one.

As I hold my hand under the dispenser, warm lather fills it and I smooth it over the thick, dark stubble, which has made my Alyssa’s cheeks and inner thighs quite red.

If I can get her to go somewhere, she’s going to need some makeup to hide her cheeks and neck. Oh, and her chest too!

Clean-shaven, I get in the shower. In walks my gorgeous wife in her little husband distractor.

“Oh, yeah, baby, I hoped you’d join me,” I call out from the shower.

“We don’t have time for that right now,” she tells me as she heads to the sink. “I had a dream about a plane full of people who need our help. Our first mission, Eden. Isn’t that exciting?”

“Our first mission?” I ask as I turn the water off and step out of the shower. “Already?”

Crap! They sure didn’t give us very long to honeymoon!

My wife is about to meet me at the front door of our suite. We’re about to depart for Miami, where this dream of hers told her we need to be to save some people.

I’ve set up our pilot, Jeffery, to take us there, and he’s managed to get a spot as the captain of the plane which is about to be in danger.

My jaw drops as my wife comes down the hallway out of our bedroom where she’s been getting ready to go. Alyssa’s silky black curls fall around her shoulders, ending at the tiniest part of her small waist, which is accented by a tight, red dress.

It fits her like a glove, molded to her curves and stopping just above her knees. Sky high black heels is where my eyes end, then I look back up. The little, silver bird necklace hangs just beneath her collar bone.

Words fail me. She holds her hands in the air, gesturing for me to say something. “You’re hot,” I say,

That’s all I got.

“Oh, Eden. Of all the words you know that’s all you can come up with?”

She walks over to me. The heels make her legs look long and strong and I want to do things to her I haven’t yet. “Outstanding,” I add.

“You can do better than that,” she says as she runs her hand around my back. The heels make her head come almost as high as mine, perfect for turning my head and landing my lips right on hers, no bending required.

Snaking my arm around her waist, I kiss her cheek. She’s managed to cover all the redness in her cheeks, save a slight blush. Her neck looks long and free of the marks I’ve left on her. “Spectacular,” I say.

“Now you’re getting there,” she says with a brilliant smile.

How is it a person can get even more beautiful?

“Are you ready to do this thing?” I ask as I pull her close to my side and smell the honeysuckle of her hair, constantly fighting the urge to take her right back to our bedroom and devour her.

“The old me would have said no. But I’m not the old me. Let’s go do this thing,” she says.

I open the door leading us out of our suite and into the long hallway. “You truly aren’t the old Alyssa, in more ways than one. While I loved the old Alyssa, the new one is smoking hot.”

As we near the staircase, thumps upon it make us look up from raking our eyes over one another. Kyle has Laura by the hand and they’re both in bathing suits, slightly damp from the pool. At the top of the staircase, they freeze when they see my mate.